Ellie Botoman was born in South Florida and now calls New York City home. She's currently a graduate student in NYU's Experimental Humanities and Museum Studies programs researching the impacts of climate change on the art world and heritage preservation. Her writing about environmental literature, science fiction, climate resiliency, and cultural criticism has been published by The Long Now Foundation, Artforum, C Magazine, and more. Prior to working at Bridge, she held roles at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Center for Architecture, The Sketchbook Project, and the Cooper Hewitt. In her free time, she brain-dumps through her newsletter, Screenshot Reliquary.